The researchers in Offenburg, German have thought of a way to put 3D images in the palm of your hand. The process to make this possible would involve outsourcing to servers all the heavy crunching required by computer animations and virtual reality simulations. After a video or image is received, the servers would then process the data and present it as either a stream or as vector-based data, both would able to be displayed in 3D. The data that is received by the mobile phone can visualized on the phone’s screen or on external devices, like a stereoscopic projector system or a head-mounted stereoscopic display. The researchers believe that with the growing processing power of mobile devices, this concept a big possibility. The researchers plan to present idea at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Optical Society (OSA), being held from October 19th - 23rd, in Rochester New York.

[via Science Daily]

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